Mandela: Target TB in fight against AIDS

Former South African president Nelson Mandela has called for stepped up efforts to control tuberculosis, saying the fight against AIDS is incomplete without targeting the lung disease.

“TB is too often a death sentence for people with AIDS. It does not have to be this way,” said Mandela, who successfully battled tuberculosis while in prison during the apartheid era. He did not take questions during his brief remarks to reporters at the International AIDS Conference in Thailand.